Politically incorrect journeys (5): Sweden

 

This is a travel blog about Malmö, Scandinavia and the failure of multiracialism throughout northern Europe.

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Expressen ran images of commentators after Disqus accounts were hacked on Avpixlat website.

Of course, the Swedish media and establishment are not really interested in “debating” mass immigration. For them, the science is settled. They are ideologically committed to imposing it, come what may, for the greater good, and anybody who disagrees is a “hater,” a “fascist,” a “nazi” or a “racist.” You see those childish words, so redolent of student politicking, over and over in the Swedish print media. 

As a result of all this, Sweden now has the closest thing in western Europe to a fascistic, hate-based establishment, where most people do not dare to speak freely in public. Only it is wrong-thinking ethnic Swedes who are its victims, at risk of dismissal, assault, home-trashing and media humiliation for voicing opposition to state immigration policy. 

To hear the other side of the story, and find out the inconvenient facts Sweden’s mainstream media works so hard to suppress, many Swedes now turn to the online news-sites such as Dispatch International, Avpixlat, Fria Tider and Exponerat. There is nothing quite like these sites in Britain. Yet some stories they carry attract more reader comments than major British dailies (and remember Britain’s population is six times Sweden’s). I know of no other west European country where the alternative media have become so mainstream, so to speak.

On these sites, Swedes can learn about taboo subjects like racist attacks on Swedes, the abuse and waste of welfare resources, the problems faced by local governments on which refugees are dumped. One particular blog site, Merit Wager’s, serves as a platform for disgruntled employees of Sweden’s migration authorities to vent their frustrations anonymously. This has to be some kind of first, in not only Sweden, but the world. These whistleblowers even have a nickname in Swedish, miggor (migga in the singular). Here is an example of the kind of anonymous post they leave:

“Father and son had permission to stay until autumn 2007 and since then they have had everything paid (accommodation, medical care, schooling, board and clothing) by their kommun of residence. All this was discovered when the father was arrested on suspicion of breaking and entering.”

These websites now pose a significant threat to Sweden’s mainstream media and their propaganda mission. Their response has been to come up with a world first of their own. The major daily Expressen recently teamed up with far-left cybersnoops Researchgruppen and launched a campaign of public outing of their backers and their more outspoken commentators. This involved hacking Disqus accounts. As a result, private citizens have been doorstepped by reporters and fired from their jobs, for leaving anonymous comments on websites.

On December 10, 2013, Expressen filled its online front page with eleven photos under a headline that read “Online haters on Avpixlat,” each of which was accompanied by a writeup. This public humiliation known in Swedish as “being hung out.” Included among Expressen’s targets was a Mikael Rahm (SD politician, not the actor), who remarked, “It is already the eleventh hour when it comes to stopping the idiocy that comes with Islam, which is foreign culture to us .. Islam is not a religion, but a sick cult and should be classed as such.” Forthright stuff, yes, but far from extreme or even unreasonable. And, of course, millions privately agree with him. Nevertheless, for these remarks, Rahm had to step down. According to Avpixlat, such hounding has led to one case of suicide. Meanwhile, fire attacks by the extreme left against private citizens get a free pass. 

The two main tabloids, Aftonbladet and Expressen, are also thought to have compiled blacklists or “opinion registers” (åsiktsregister) of readers of these websites, something usually done by national security agencies in other countries. Fria Tider reported that “Expressen has ‘opinion-registered’ 6,200 Swedes who read Fria Tider, Avpixlat and Exponerat.” The website has raised funds to bring a libel suit against editor Thomas Mattsson. How any of this stuff can have been legal in a developed democracy in the first place beats me, but then again there are many things about Sweden that flummox me these days, including its “progressive” view of the concept of privacy. Anyway, good luck with the litigation, Fria Tider.

And still, it will not go away. On the contrary, the hydra-headed topic has become a national obsession. It divides families. It has brought to the surface in Sweden a seething anger that is corroding the placid, content society of thirty years ago. Commenting on his mailbag after a piece that discussed Doris Lessing, columnist Johan Hakelius, wrote:

“Why pretend? Without exception, ... [readers] are interested in one thing: immigration. The discussion can begin wherever it likes, but it always ends with immigration. It may be about whatever, but it ends with immigration ... Immigration, immigration, immigration, immigration, immigration. .. Sweden, which considers itself to be open,” he concluded, “in actual fact is culturally closed.

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